Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Department Overview
Global Markets Technology builds and maintains software solutions used by Global Markets Front and Middle office businesses. The business is spread across EMEA, US, Japan, AEJ, and emerging Markets like India, Brazil, and China. It deals in wide range of products including FX, Rates, Credit, Securitized Products, Equities, Futures & Options, FI/EQ Derivatives, and Prime Services including financing.
UDW is a GMT system that acts as the firm’s data warehouse for regional EOD trade valuations for trading positions across the entire bank. The system consumes EOD trade, risk and P&L feeds from various systems, normalises and enriches them, and then presents the aggregated data for interrogation by end users. Our data also feeds into Risk and Finance systems, where it is used, for example, in the derivation of Risk Management exposure metrics such as VaR.
Role & Responsibilities
- This is a lead role - required to do both hands-on development and lead the team to provide technical/architectural/design/development support to more junior team members, while also liaising with technology teams globally.
- Lead the Functional / Technical delivery workstream within the platform which includes design and delivery of high-quality technology solutions to modernize the platform within timeline.
- Development and Maintenance of the platform.
- Understand business requirements and responsible for designing solution, implementation, testing and L3 support.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders globally for requirement analysis, solution/approach, testing, status updates etc.
- Propose and implement strategic/tactical solutions for business and technical problems.
- Perform unit testing. Support SIT, UAT and Regression testing.
- Understand and follow organizational, team level processes and best practices.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related technical/quantitative field
- 13+ years of experience in working with Java (8 and above).
- Experience in Java frameworks (Spring, Spring boot)
- Experience of Java testing frameworks (Junit) and Mocking frameworks.
- Expertise with development lifecycle tools (Maven, Jenkins, Git, Ansible)
- In depth knowledge of object-oriented programming principles
- Ability to work with both Linux and Windows servers.
- Work effectively in a global team, supporting and advising as required.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal.
- Demonstrate strong personal initiative.
- High level of attention to detail, a positive hands-on attitude, and a strong focus on producing work of the highest standard are essential.
- Excellent analytical skills and strong in problem solving.
Desirable Skills
- Exposure to Big Data technologies (Spark, Parquet, Dremio etc.)
- Knowledge of Investment Banking and Capital Markets domain
- Experience with Caching solutions (Gemfire, Redis)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Ingress Controller
- Exposure to AWS
- Experience with ActivePivot
We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age.
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